Rome Moves Toward ‘Full Communion’ With Orthodox Anglicans
by Jules Gomes, from Virtueonline.
Archbishop of Canterbury and Church of England excluded from talks in September.
In a historic step, the Vatican is working toward “full communion” with conservative Anglicans by recognizing Anglican holy orders and churches without requiring “amalgamation or conversion.”
The union will be based on a Malta II proposal presented by the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA), that revives the Malta I report agreed upon by Pope Paul VI and archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Michael Ramsey in 1966.
According to the Malta I proposals, differences in matters like Petrine primacy, infallibility, and Mariology, would be overcome by ensuring that “neither Communion is tied to a positive acceptance of all the beliefs and devotional practices of the other.”
There will be a lot of doubling down from people who do not actually want a united Church.
Unity and mutual acceptance of holy orders would be based on the recognition that each Communion “accepts the basic truths set forth in the ecumenical Creeds and the common tradition of the ancient Church.”
Historical events and past decrees like Apostolicae Curae, which was issued in 1896 by Pope Leo XIII declaring all Anglican ordinations to be “absolutely null and utterly void,” would be re-examined “only to the extent that they can throw light upon the facts of the present situation.”
Significantly, the process of Anglican-Roman Catholic union would not be processed by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, but through the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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